In total, the Facebook data center in Altoona has donated over $300,000 in grants the last three years.

Site coordinator Melissa Lawrence said every Facebook data center site offers community grants.

“Our way of giving back and being good stewards of the community we live and work in,” Lawrence said.

Lawrence said the application process is very simple—intentionally—and that applications open each October until the middle of December. She said organizations or projects that impact the students or communities of the Southeast Polk and Bondurant Farrar School Districts are what typically get supported.

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Illinois

Packback, a Chicago-based developer of an AI-powered online discussion platform, raised $4.2 million in Series A funding – FinSMEs